The Secret to SuperHuman Strength

Author: Alison Bechdel
ISBN: 9780544387652

The New York Times–bestselling graphic memoir about Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home, becoming the artist her mother wanted to be. Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home was a pop culture and literary phenomenon. Now, a second thrilling tale of filial sleuthery, this time about her mother: voracious reader, music lover, passionate amateur actor. Also a woman, unhappily married to a closeted gay man, whose artistic aspirations simmered under the surface of Bechdel's childhood…and who stopped touching or kissing her daughter good night, forever, when she was seven.Poignantly, hilariously, Bechdel embarks on a quest for answers concerning the mother-daughter gulf. It's a richly layered search that leads readers from the fascinating life and work of the iconic twentieth-century psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott, to one explosively illuminating Dr. Seuss illustration, to Bechdel’s own (serially monogamous) adult love life. And, finally, back to Mother—to a truce, fragile and real-time, that w

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publish Date: 2012-05-01

Subjects: Comics & Graphic Novels / Nonfiction / Biography & Memoir, Comics & Graphic Novels / LGBTQ, Comics & Graphic Novels / Contemporary Women

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Body Image)